Explore the West Side, beginning at the school built in 1915 (photos: on the right, dated 1915, and below from the 1980s).
We’ll also visit the West Side oval playing fields, streets with houses for employees of the silk mill, and the site of a former boarding house, an interesting “housing” chapter in the history of immigration and getting started in a new country.
Pictured below is a circa 1900 photo of the “Forest House” or “Four Acres” boarding house on Cooper Street, across the backyard from Washington School. Scan the QR code to read more about this and other boarding houses dating back to the late 19th century. Below left, 1859 school, Cedar St.